With the 5:00 added on the FSM Ron Jones box, this new complete version appears to have between three and three and a half minutes of truly new material (the GNP website in marking "unreleased" music in bold does not take into account the final FSM box). That's actually about twice as much new stuff as I was expecting -- cool!

But of course I can't wait to hear this with its improved sound quality and Lukas/Takis liner notes. I hope that we'll also get Jeff Bond track-by-track liner notes as a supplemental PDF like we did on their reissues of First Contact and Generations....

this new complete version appears to have between three and three and a half minutes of truly new material

Yes, but like you, to me the real appeal of this is the apparently much-improved sound. The FSM Jones box included what they considered the most worthy five minutes of the eight or so then-unreleased minutes of score, and honestly, they don't do much for me. I can't imagine those last three are going to be the ones that really sing.

It's funny yesterday I was watching this on Blu-Ray then bam this shows up! lol

Seen the new transfer as well and loved it, especially the way they handled the transition between the two episodes. I was wondering, did they ever revisit the storyline with Riker turning down his own command in the seasons that followed? Can't really remember.

this new complete version appears to have between three and three and a half minutes of truly new material

Yes, but like you, to me the real appeal of this is the apparently much-improved sound. The FSM Jones box included what they considered the most worthy five minutes of the eight or so then-unreleased minutes of score, and honestly, they don't do much for me. I can't imagine those last three are going to be the ones that really sing.

Well, I'm one of those people (probably in the minority) who loved practically every minute of the Ron Jones box and would not have preferred edited versions of the scores. Even the short cues worked really well in context. I suspect that's why the short cues from BoBW on the Jones box didn't work for you; they weren't in context and out of it they were just bitty parts. Now that they've been edited into the complete score, I think they'll flesh it out nicely and I expect an improved listening experience with the 8+ minutes of new material added in to GNP's previous album program.

Now Babylon 5 on the other hand...though I love the show and the music for it I wish they'd edited out some of the transitional cues and stingers and such at the very least. But then as much as I love Christopher Franke I think Ron Jones is a better composer.

Seen the new transfer as well and loved it, especially the way they handled the transition between the two episodes. I was wondering, did they ever revisit the storyline with Riker turning down his own command in the seasons that followed? Can't really remember.

The edit for the single Blu-Ray release wasn't bad but it was a bit wonky.

Regarding further plots of Riker turning down his own command, no that was the last time they visited that.

Grant he was Captain of the Enterprise in a fantasy reality of "Future Imperfect" then again from a parallel reality from the episode "Parallels" but that's about it.

There was no actual other stories regarding him turning down his own command after after that.

It's funny yesterday I was watching this on Blu-Ray then bam this shows up! lol

Seen the new transfer as well and loved it, especially the way they handled the transition between the two episodes. I was wondering, did they ever revisit the storyline with Riker turning down his own command in the seasons that followed? Can't really remember.

No. Never revisited Riker turning down his own command again. Closest you get to resolution is Riker as future enterprise captain in all good things and I thought in later movies as captain of either enterprise or some starship.

It's funny yesterday I was watching this on Blu-Ray then bam this shows up! lol

Seen the new transfer as well and loved it, especially the way they handled the transition between the two episodes. I was wondering, did they ever revisit the storyline with Riker turning down his own command in the seasons that followed? Can't really remember.

No. Never revisited Riker turning down his own command again. Closest you get to resolution is Riker as future enterprise captain in all good things and I thought in later movies as captain of either enterprise or some starship.

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